We ought to be ever such good children!" "Yes, but I'm not," sighed Lulu.

"O Gracie, I'd give anything to be as good as you are!" "Now don't talk so, Lu; you make me feel like a hypocrite; because I'm not good," said Grace.
"You are; at any rate you're a great deal better than I am," asserted Lulu with warmth.

"You never disobey papa, or get into a passion; and I don't think you love finery as I do.

Gracie, I want that ring yet; oh I should like to have it ever so much! and I oughtn't to want it; it's very selfish, because to buy it would use up money that ought to go to send missionaries to the heathen, or do good to some poor miserable creature; and it's wrong for me to want it, because papa says it wouldn't be good for me; and if I were as good as I ought to be I'd never want anything he doesn't think best for me to have.

But, oh dear, how can I help it when I'm so fond of pretty things!" "Lu," said Grace, softly, "I do believe that if you ask the Lord Jesus to help you to quit wanting it, he will.